DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .

SAT with his arms folded and a cross look on his face, this Gorilla looks like he's had enough of the Christmas holidays already .

Bathers on a New Zealand beach stripped naked and took to the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to shatter the record for the world's largest skinny dip .

The UK's first hotline - and possibly the galaxy's - for people who have been targeted by aliens has opened to the public .

A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .

A baby girl has become the youngest British patient to receive a life-saving cardiac operation after her heart swelled to twice its normal size within days of her birth .

ONCE A doctor’s surgery, family home and office, an array of medical equipment is scattered throughout this abandoned home .

A lazy otter finds the ideal spot to soak up the sun and sleep off his lunch .

N evil mugger who battered a Birmingham old soldier and fled with just £40 has been jailed for nine years .

BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .

STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .

NEVER mind being careful not to choke on your food, this mother bird has a bigger challenge on her hands, as her ravenous offspring impatiently launches its head down into her stomach .